From: Jan-Benedict Glaw Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 12:54:50 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add git-explode-packs Message-ID: <20060326125450.GT31387@lug-owl.de> In-Reply-To: <7vwtehpwdd.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> On Sat, 2006-03-25 22:12:46 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Martin Atukunda writes: > > This script does the opposite of git repack -a -d. > > The script seems to do what it claims to, but now why would one > need to use this? In other words what's the situation one would > find this useful? It's possibly useful if you oftenly access old objects with git-cat-file or git-ls-tree. Not being a Perl hacker, a friend and I eg. started to hack GIT support into LXR. I've just posted some very early patches on the LXR mailing list (http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=1734). What would be even more interesting is to not unpack _all_ objects, but only those belonging to specifically mentioned commits or tags. I think LXR could make _good_ use of that. MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 _ O _ "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg _ _ O für einen Freien Staat voll Freier Bürger" | im Internet! | im Irak! O O O ret = do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TCPA));